LEED Silver Rec Center Expected to Revitalize Neighborhood

ST. LOUIS — On the city’s north side, work is under way on a $22 million, 79,000-square-foot recreation center designed to achieve LEED Silver certification.
 
The O’Fallon Park Recreation Complex, scheduled for completion by the end of 2011, will be the second community center built in the city since the 1970s. The facility is being touted as a revitalizing effort for the impoverished North St. Louis, according to city officials. 
 
“We don’t have a YMCA or anything over here,” says St.

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California Bakery Receives LEED Platinum Award

NEWARK, Calif. — When the owners of FullBloom Baking Co. needed to expand, they purchased a 95,000-square-foot food manufacturing plant with an eye toward making it the greenest wholesale baking company in the nation. 
 
Their efforts were rewarded recently when the U.S. Green Building Council awarded Platinum certification to FullBloom’s management.

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PRESS RELEASE/Tishman International to address green building strategies at 5th international facility managenent …

SOFIA, BULGARIA – October 15, 2010. Los Angeles-based Tishman International Companies, a leading international commercial real estate development and management company, will be making a presentation at the Fifth International Facility Management Conference, themed “Sustainability and Efficiency” to be held on October 15, 2010 at the Holiday Inn in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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